Van

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Van: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Van: Recorded since 1951, it reached #318 in 1955, and it stood at #5,137 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
75years from first to last
#318highest recorded position

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2012

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#5876

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 34 of the 58 years from 1951 to 2008.

In 2007: #572 among boys in Norway, #4333 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1951–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1951
First recorded at #387 among boys in Norway in 1951 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1951–2008
Highest recorded position: #318 among boys in Norway, in 1955 (recorded 1951–2008).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5137 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Van appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 34 years beginning in 1951, and has registered 203 births with the name.

Van across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Van's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#387 (1951)	#318 (1955)	#576 (2008)	34 of 58	203 (1951–2008)	11 (1967)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#2020 (1996)	#5137 (2025)	11 of 30	40 (1996–2025)	7 (2020)

Van by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Van in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	41	6 of 10	7
1960sbusiest	61	8 of 10	8
1970s	44	8 of 10	6
1980s	35	7 of 10	5
1990s	14	3 of 10	5
2000s	8	2 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1951 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #318 in Norway in 1955.

Van's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#5137	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#576	4	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#572	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#549	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#635	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#599	5	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#612	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#644	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#646	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#602	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#644	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#651	4	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#452	9	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#550	6	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#594	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#571	5	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#469	8	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#637	4	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#568	5	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#536	6	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#551	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#496	6	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#328	11	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#479	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#349	10	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#530	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#369	8	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#337	9	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#392	7	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#349	8	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#370	7	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#383	6	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#328	8	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#318	8	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#387	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Van is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Van, between 1951 and 2025, in 44 of those 75 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1951–2008	34	#318 in 1955
England and Wales	1996–2025	11	#2020 in 1996

Its high point came 41 years earlier in Norway (1955) than in England and Wales (1996).

No registrar recorded it for 9 years after 1997; it appears again in 2007.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1951 and 2025, ranked in 44 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #318, first reached in 1955.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in Norway in 1967.

Its record falls into 17 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 45 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Valerio · #2728, 11y
Vamika · #676, 6y
Vanesa · #284, 24y
Vanessa · #15, 63y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Iseult · #316, 47y
Thora · #316, 43y
Jenifer · #315, 44y
Edin · #312, 42y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Lindis · #319, 32y
Claes · #315, 29y
Nadja · #315, 38y
Karim · #314, 59y

Van was ranked #318 in Norway · Boys in 1955. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Stefan#314
Thorstein#315
Tony#316
Torleiv#317
Widar#319
Wieslaw#320
Ahmed#321
Alv#322

What's not yet available

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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1951 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #318 in Norway in 1955. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Van

Van at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Van across 2 official records

Van by decade in Norway · Boys

Popularity data

Where Van is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Van

Van at a glance

Van across 2 official records

Van by decade in Norway · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Van